The UI Designer defines and delivers intuitive, visually compelling user experiences for an implantable medical device platform and its connected-care ecosystem. This role combines strong visual design skills with user-centered product design. They translate clinical workflows and user needs into elegant interfaces, rapid prototypes, and validated experiences across multiple concurrent products while preserving a consistent product-family experience.

General Responsibilities

• Own the strategic evolution of LivaNova’s multi-brand Design System, driving continuous improvements to components, tokens, and documentation, ensuring the system scales to meet the needs of multiple concurrent products and cross-functional teams across the organization.

• Resolve complex, cross-functional design issues spanning multiple products, teams, and technical constraints, serving as the senior escalation point for high-complexity UI problems.

• Define and scale UI operations establishing team best practices, design processes, and workflows that elevate UI maturity across the organization and ensure consistent, repeatable delivery, and alignment at scale.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, engineering, human factors, regulatory, legal, security, and marketing to align on safety, usability, and go-to-market needs.

• Elevate UI best practices and methodologies by defining, documenting, and sharing standardized design processes, templates, and governance to ensure consistent, repeatable delivery.

Specific Responsibilities

• Define information architecture: establish navigation, content hierarchy, and data flows for device and companion applications.

• Produce high-fidelity UI designs: deliver pixelperfect screens, visual assets, and motion cues that reflect brand and clinical needs.

• Build interactive prototypes: create clickable prototypes for concept validation, stakeholder reviews, and engineering alignment.

• Deliver production-ready specs: provide annotated designs, component specs, and developer handoff artifacts (tokens, assets, logic rules/states, and guidelines).

• Maintain and evolve the design system: create reusable components, documentation, and versioning to ensure portfolio consistency.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience as a Product UI Designer with at least 3 recent years of experience within the medical device industry

• Strong verbal and written communication and proven cross-functional collaboration skills

• Highly motivated self-starter who proactively drives outcomes, negotiates trade-offs, and works independently when needed

• Excellent teamwork, partnering, and negotiation abilities to align stakeholders and move projects forward

• Experience applying mobile and web interface standards such as Android Material Design and Apple Human Interface Guidelines

• Fluent with Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, or equivalent design, prototyping, and research tools

• Design systems experience: creating, maintaining, and scaling component libraries and documented patterns for multi-product consistency

Education

• Bachelors degree in Graphic Design, Digital Design, Visual Communications, or a related field.

• Candidates who come from a different educational focus can still be considered assuming they have the requisite experience and relevant certifications or coursework.

Location & Travel Requirements

• This position will be based at our Houston area site

• Moderate travel may be required (up to 25%)

Pay Transparency

• A reasonable estimate of the annual base salary for this position is $160,000 - $180,000 plus discretionary annual bonus. Pay ranges may vary by location.

Employee benefits include:

• Health benefits Medical, Dental, Vision

• Personal and Vacation Time

• Retirement & Savings Plan (401K)

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Training & Education Assistance

• Bonus Referral Program

• Service Awards

• Employee Recognition Program

• Flexible Work Schedules